SOLICITATION - CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENT - NEWSPAPERS - A classified
advertisement in a newspaper directed to inventors stating, "Protect your invention
by applying for a patent" giving the name and address of an attorney is improper.

The members of the committee are unanimously of the opinion that the above
advertisement, if inserted in a newspaper by a member of the Bar, would constitute a
violation of Canon 24, which prohibits solicitation, direct or indirect. (10-0)